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        Final
        touches to challan against Badals 
        Chandigarh, November 16 
        Aided by outside experts, senior functionaries of the Chief Ministers’
        Secretariat and the Punjab Vigilance Bureau have been working late in
        the night to give the finishing touches to the challan in the
        disproportionate assets case registered against former Chief Minister
        Parkash Singh Badal and members of his family, besides others, in June
        this year.
         
         
          Punjab
        page: Money exchanged hands in police
        transfers: Badal
        Mulayam
        govt defends second CBI charge sheet 
        New Delhi, November 16 
        In a surprise move, the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh
        has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, defending the filing of
        supplementary charge sheet by the CBI in the Ayodhya case, dropping the
        conspiracy charge against top BJP leaders.
         Snow
        and rain break dry spell 
        Chandigarh, November 16 
        Renewed spells of snow in forward areas of Jammu and Kashmir and
        far-flung areas of Himachal Pradesh during the past 48 hours, besides
        drizzles and light rain, ended an almost two-month-long dry spell in the
        north-west region, besides causing a sharp fall in the mercury.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
         
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        Scribes decry Tamil Nadu incident on Press Day 
        
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        Shimla, November 16 
        Mediapersons called for a proper codification of privileges of
        legislators and an honest introspection by journalists to prevent
        re-enactment of the unsavoury incident, currently taking place in Tamil
        Nadu, during a seminar on “Legislature, executive and the role of
        media in democracy”, organised to mark Press Day here today.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
         
         
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         Sentence
        over, yet languishing 
        in Pakistan jails 
        Chandigarh, November 16 
        The parents of 36 Punjab youths, who landed in Pakistani jails after
        their attempts to sneak into Europe through illegitimate means failed,
        have demanded the Union Government’s intervention for the release of
        their wards. These youths, who were convicted for entering Pakistan without proper travel documents, have already completed their
          sentences.
        
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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        Israeli troops must pull out, says Vajpayee 
        November 16, 2003 
                  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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         Stop
        terror influx, Russia tells Pak 
        
        November 14, 2003 
                  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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        Russia
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        SC
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        The Hindu 
        
        November 11, 2003 
                  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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        Suicide
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        November 10, 2003 
                  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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        Press across nation rallies behind
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        November 9, 2003 
                  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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        Death
        penalty for Sushil Sharma in ‘tandoor’ case 
        November 8, 2003 
                  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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         19 hacked, burnt in tea garden clash 
        November 7, 2003 
                  
                   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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